Lung ultrasonography for early management of patients with respiratory symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic is representing a serious challenge to worldwide public health. Lung Ultrasonography (LUS) has been signaled as a potential useful tool in this pandemic contest either to intercept viral pneumonia or to foster alternative paths. LUS could be useful in determining early lung involve...

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Published in:Journal of ultrasound 2020-12, Vol.23 (4), p.449-456
Main Authors: Smargiassi, Andrea, Soldati, Gino, Borghetti, Alberto, Scoppettuolo, Giancarlo, Tamburrini, Enrica, Testa, Antonia Carla, Moro, Francesca, Natale, Luigi, Larici, Anna Rita, Buonsenso, Danilo, Valentini, Piero, Draisci, Gaetano, Zanfini, Bruno Antonio, Pompili, Maurizio, Scambia, Giovanni, Lanzone, Antonio, Franceschi, Francesco, Rapaccini, Gian Ludovico, Gasbarrini, Antonio, Giorgini, Paolo, Richeldi, Luca, Demi, Libertario, Inchingolo, Riccardo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Betacoronavirus
Clinical Decision-Making
Clinical Protocols
Coronavirus Infections - diagnostic imaging
Coronavirus Infections - therapy
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Early Diagnosis
Emergency medical services
Emergency Service, Hospital - organization & administration
Hospitalization
Humans
Inservice Training
Lung - diagnostic imaging
Lungs
Medical Staff, Hospital - education
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Pandemics
Patient Isolation
Physicians
Pneumonia
Pneumonia, Viral - diagnostic imaging
Pneumonia, Viral - therapy
Public health
Review Paper
SARS-CoV-2
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonography
Ultrasound
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Summary:COVID-19 pandemic is representing a serious challenge to worldwide public health. Lung Ultrasonography (LUS) has been signaled as a potential useful tool in this pandemic contest either to intercept viral pneumonia or to foster alternative paths. LUS could be useful in determining early lung involvement suggestive or not of COVID-19 pneumonia and potentially plays a role in managing decisions for hospitalization in isolation or admission in general ward. In order to face pandemic, in a period in which a large number of emergency room accesses with suspicious symptoms are expected, physicians need a standardized ultrasonographic approach, fast educational processes in order to be able to recognize both suggestive and not suggestive echographic signs and shared algorithms for LUS role in early management of patients.
ISSN:1876-7931
1971-3495
1876-7931
DOI:10.1007/s40477-020-00501-7